Word: panning
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...core problems. In Britain, Cable & Wireless stock is up 50% since Italian turnaround expert Francesco Caio took over a year ago. He swiftly shed unprofitable operations his predecessor had bought in the U.S., including a big Internet hosting business, but had been reluctant to sell when they didn't pan out. At ailing insurer Royal & Sun Alliance, Andy Haste, 41, the CEO who took over last year, wasted little time in raising $1.8 billion in fresh capital and cutting 20,000 jobs. In Switzerland, Credit Suisse stock has risen about 40%, easily outperforming most rivals, since the bank ditched Lukas...
...part of the In crowd, you won't know it's there." The just-opened Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, also caters to customers who demand the best, with its Lone Star Tower, a separate entity from two more moderately priced sections. In Bangkok, the Pan Pacific is one of several hotels that offer executive-level floors as "hotels within hotels." The 83 rooms on the Pacific Floor are designed to create a "bubble of luxury" within the property...
Other scientists are more cautious. Zaven Khachaturian of the Alzheimer's Association warns that large-scale human studies will be necessary to determine just how effective curcumin is, what the appropriate dose should be and whether there are any side effects. But if the studies pan out, curcumin could join a growing list of spices with known or suspected medicinal properties...
Whether that confidence in their picks will pan out in a spot on an NFL roster is as yet up in the air. While Siedlecki compared Lawrie favorably to Johnson—“a receiver who survives as a blocker”—and acknowledged that he has both the size and the intellect to succeed at the professional level, the speed of the game will certainly take some adjusting to if his stay is to last...
...White?” column. Why should the racial identifier “White” seem to encompass too many diverse human lives to caricature, while the identifier “Asian” does not? At best, the reduction of the rich diversity of a pan-ethnic minority group into a mere subculture gives it a status subordinate to white heritage, and is deeply disrespectful. At worst, the pigeonholing of Asian Americans into limited personas feeds the unconscious conviction that they are, in life as in art, objects. The greatest problem, then, with material like...